Prison News

California counties are confounding the state's court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions.

Hostilities intensified in Crimea on Saturday as Ukrainian officials accused pro-Russian forces of armed aggression and President Barack Obama rounded up world leaders to demand Russia "de-escalate the situation."

One of two inmates who killed a federal correctional officer at U.S. Penitentiary Atwater will spend the rest of his life in prison in exchange for a guilty plea, under a plea bargain reportedly approved by Attorney General Eric Holder.

Alleged gang members are presented to the media at the National Police Headquarters after their capture in San Salvador, El Salvador, Thursday, March.

This Aug. 15, 2012 photo shows Raymond Roth, center, as he is escorted by law enforcement officers to the Long Island State Park Police Headquarters, in Babylon, N.Y. Roth already facing prison time for faking his own drowning in an insurance fraud scheme was convicted Friday, March 7, 2014 of impersonating a police officer, but he was cleared of ... (more)

The government is falling short in assessing the risks of a program that allows tens of thousands of foreign students to stay in the United States and work for close to 2 1/2 years, according to a newly released report from the Government Accountability Office.

But while police responded to the domestic violence call, one of the officers took the 31-year-old woman into an upstairs bedroom and sexually assaulted her, authorities said.

The FBI has launched an investigation of the Corrections Corporation of America over the company's running of an Idaho prison with a reputation so violent that inmates dubbed it "Gladiator School."

Two months into their journey to the United States, he and his wife are sleeping most nights in an old, worn Nissan.

A convicted murderer who escaped from a Michigan prison on Super Bowl Sunday used snow-white thermal underwear, hobby scissors, his belt and a dose of inattention from prison guards to sneak out, the state Department of Corrections has concluded in a newly released report.

United Nations human rights experts demanded answers Thursday from Venezuela's government about the use of violence and imprisonment in a crackdown on widespread demonstrations.

The Conservative government is asking the federal prison service to rethink funding cuts to a program that helps sex offenders from abusing more people.

One veteran of Colombia's disbanded far-right militias admitted to ordering or taking part in at least 3,000 killings, mostly targeting leftists, and incinerating many of the corpses to destroy evidence.

Four young men were convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment Thursday in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria, a human rights activist said.

A U.S. Army general accused of sexual assault was set to plead guilty to three lesser charges Thursday in a move that his lawyer says will strengthen his position going into trial.

Nearly a third of Rikers Island inmates who said their visible injuries came at the hands of a correction officer last year had suffered a blow to the head, a tactic that is supposed to be a guard's last resort because it is potentially fatal, according to an internal report obtained by The Associated Press.

Nearly a third of Rikers Island inmates who said their visible injuries came at the hands of a correction officer last year had suffered a blow to the head, a tactic that is supposed to be a guard's last resort... Nearly a third of Rikers Island inmates who said their visible injuries came at the hands of a correction officer last year had suffered ... (more)

Lil Boosie appears onstage during a taping of MTV's Sucker Free at MTV studios in Times Square on Jan. 23, 2007, in New York.

Federal prosecutors moved on Wednesday to dismiss most of an indictment accusing a Dallas man linked to the hacking collective Anonymous of posting an Internet link to stolen information.

The U.S. government has frozen more than $458 million in corruption proceeds deposited by former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and conspirators in banks around the world.